On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, schoappied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm searching for a way to play drum notation in linux. Hydrogen doesn't
> seems to have drum notation possibilities and to sync other programs
> playing the drums in hydrogen is hard.
Flaws in Hydrogen:
* No exclusive groups (required for muting the different hi-hat sounds).
* No MIDI out.
With that said...
If Hydrogen at least had MIDI out it would be a kick-ass sequencer for
drums, i.e. driving a drum kit loaded into LinuxSampler. Hydrogen can
already be synced with other applications using JACK transport.
Sequencing using percussion notation isn't that important as long as you can
read notation (notation is great when you need to write something down on a
piece of paper or communicate in print). I'm still using my Roland R-5 (it's
20 years old next year!) for sequencing drums (I still love the "humanizing"
it perform) which is as far from WYSIWYG drum notation you get... :-D
Using drum matrices, such as in Hydrogen, Rosegarden, or any other sequencer
can actually be a bit more intuitive sometimes than regular notation. But
what makes Hydrogen (and my R-5!) really great for sequencing drums compared
to regular sequences is the way you build a song out of patterns, no need to
resequence the same pattern over and over again for each and every bar. And
what makes Hydrogens song editor quite good is the possibility to layer
several patterns on top of each other (say you have one set of patterns with
just the kick and snare, and two alternative feel patterns playing either on
the hi-hat or the ride) while I have to merge them together as a whole new
pattern on my R-5 (but then again it's 1989 tech :-D ).
> Maybe linuxsampler has a solution? Are there gig drum files?
Naturalstudio's ns_kit7free used to be available as gig but appears to have
been discontinued (and can't be redistributed due to the licensing).
But the best drum kit (or kits... there are two of them included) around is
with no doubt G&S Custom Work Drum Kit Sample Library. It's originaly for
HALion and there's no gig version, but since HALion (including EXS24 and
some Kontakt) instruments ship the samples as wav or aiff files it's easy to
build your own gig file with Gigedit (that suits you and your mapping
needs).
BTW, here's a list of sample libraries (both gig and those with separate wav
and aiff files) we've compiled:
https://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11
Is it possible to make a drum score in Nted and connect Nted to linuxsampler
> to play the drums?
>
I have not used Nted so I can't give you a definitive answer. It depend on
how Nted map the drums, if it use the regular GM drum map or let you define
a custom one. To put it briefly: the drum kit and the sequencer (Nted in
this case) must use the same drum map -- obviously. :-D
Examples of drum maps (GM, MC505 and yours truly):
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pj7UEImChILAiwq8tFdkBJA
BTW, channel 10 is usually the default MIDI drum channel.
--
Anders Dahnielson
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